All posts tagged Adam Brody

In Neil LaBute’s “Some Girl(s),” a young man goes on a multi-city tour to make amends with some influential ex-girlfriends in what turns out to be a strange combination of an awkwardly overdue mea culpa and ego feeding frenzy. A movie adaptation of the play, which debuted in 2005 at the Lucille Lortel theater in New York, will be released on June 28 in New York and Los Angeles—and all over the world via Vimeo on Demand, a first for the new streaming service, which like the film, was unveiled at the South by Southwest film and technology confab in March.

In the movie, directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer (“Party Girl”), the main character—just called “Man” in the script—is played by Adam Brody, known for his role as the mensch-y and adorkable Seth Cohen in the TV show “The O.C.” Mayer says she relished how Brody was able to use his on-screen charm to cloak a sadistic character like Man, “in this insidious packaging of a sensitive guy” so that audience members would be simultaneously attracted to and repelled by his behavior.

Two weeks ago, actress and singer Patti LuPone grabbed a cell phone out of the hand of an audience member who was texting during a performance of her current play, "Shows for Days." The bold move led to an outpouring of support from fans fed up with glowing screens. Ms. LuPone gives us her five rules of theater etiquette.